Prime Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Prime Roy Jones Jr More Unbeatable

Hey seriously, and I mean seriously. Who beats Jones at peak 160 ? Know I love SRR, King Carlos and MMH. And the all did it for a long period of time. But, a truly prime Jones would be tough to pick against with any of the ATG`s ...While PBF would lose to prime SRL,Hearns SRR would kill him and Whitaker schools him Like someone said a semi-retired used up Oscar damn near beat him !...Jones at his best against the best, didn`t get beat,,, Need I remind anyone that PBF lots to JLC first time out, minus the scorecards ???

 

The thing about RJJ is how he never needs the jab to check range. The ******* could just trot in from outside and each step gave him power-punching leverage at a dominant angle. Then he'd step out, always just enough so you barely fall short of a good angle on him. He did it really casually so you start thinking "maybe footwork really is that easy".

That I think is the real difference. FMJ has exacting skills and you can see him labor at them like a master craftsman. RJJ just hung out in the ring and punched you all the way from his ****ing shoes like he was chilling on the corner.

 

Right on with that !

 

FMJ is the most precise, well schooled fighter I have seen.

RJJ is the mosty amazing boxer to possibly ever exist. It's not a fair comparison because RJJ was just that much better than Floyd. SRR, SRL, RJJ those are possibly the most talented guys to ever do it imo.

Floyd has had a very carefully crafted career and has never shown the natural ability of Roy. "Hard work, dedication" he's not lying that's what got FMJ where he is not raw talent.

When Roy was in his prime he looked absolutely miles ahead of anyone, and completely tooled James Toney who apart from his laziness represented a proxy Floyd vs, RJJ.

 

Hey, great factual post

 

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Looking back, vintage Jones didn`t lose a minute in his fights and he was powerfully in command every step ...

 

well schooled against who? got outboxed by castillo, lmao.

rjj showed it against prime hopkins and toney and made it look easy.

that is greatness you cant dispute.

i fight little girls, i can assure you im better schooled than floyd, to exagerate.

 

You all know Oscar is my favorite fighter but I try to be as realistic as possible and will tell you Jones would be a nightmare for Oscar had jones been smaller or somehow they met up. Yet Mayweather, no way, we all saw Oscar stay right with him for 8 rounds and was winning half of those before he slowed down. Jones was a whole different animal, would have made Oscar look silly and believe if somehow they met prime for prime at a given weight Jones would 10-2 him with ease. Jones was absolutely a phenom talent that comes around only once in a lifetime, we will never see that again.

 

Agreed,prime Jones was truly something special ...

 

Legit challenge you say, he managed to pick the shittest heavyweight champion there was at the time. Slow, ponderous, and generally ****ing crap.

If he really wanted a challenge there were fighters out there from 160 and above that would have gave him more of a challenge than shitty ass Ruiz.

 

James Toney when he fought RJJ did not resemble Mayweather in any way shape or form, even the way he does the shoulder roll is different.

 

Well name all of the other 34 year old LHW's queuing up to fight Ruiz.

It's easy to say it was a nothing win.

How many guys have done it since?

Roy would probably have got more credit if it'd have been a competitive fight, like Toney vs Jirov.

 

By far my two favorite fighters in this era. Jones Jr...God Given talent! Floyd...more techician and defensive genius!